Re: Slow transmission with Marvell SKnet

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost (Frank Wille) writes:

>For some NICs (for example re(4)) the following ifconfig works fine:
>  media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex

>But appranently not for sk(4). These media options do not work:

Did you also fix the switch to 100baseTX or was it left on autoselect?


>        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
>full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause)

>So I was probably missing the flowcontrol, rxpause and txpause options for
>sk(4), which re(4) didn't need?

Unlikely. These options are significant if you connect network segments
with different speeds to throttle the faster segment to not overrun
switch buffers.

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